One of the Ladies… may be upset with that result in the Hawkeye State grudge-match — & doesn’t it make you feel at least a little better that you get the whole damned state named for your side, even in the loss? — but I have to admit that the Cyclones’s victory reminds me of my age twenty crush-object (a real, live woman, one whom I knew). Meghan (may her marriage be long & happy, with many children with which to populate the newlywed’s own planet in the afterlife (she’s a Mormon, after all)) was an Iowan by birth, & though by the time I knew she was a BYU undergrad with Utah home-address, still nothing in sports jacked her up more than the ‘Clones. So, in her honour, I’ve glad Ames rained on Iowa City’s parade.

(The weird thing about all that was: I am absolutely neurotic about making my bed. Like, I can be an hour late for work and running out the door with wet hair and one shoe on, but that bed has to be made before I leave.)